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lUrrn TATES ArnN'r rrrcno WILLIAM J. HUTCHINS, OF JOLIE'I, ILLINOIS.

WIRE-FENCE STAY.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,890, dated October 20, 1885.

Application filed December 4, 1884. Serial No.149,537.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. HUrcrriNs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Joliet, in the county of Will and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vi re-Fen ce Stays, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

The figure represents a perspective view.

This invention relates to certain improvements in wire-fence stays, for staying and supporting the wires between the fence-posts; and it consists in the use of a iiat strip of metal corrugated crosswise throughout its entire length, and provided with elongated perforations between the angles or bends of the crimps or corrugations for the insertion of a pin or rod to lock the fence-wires in between said pin and the corrugated strip in the angles of the corrugations.

Referring to the drawings, S represents a iiat metal strip, crimped or corrugated throughout its entire length crosswise, as shown, and provided with the perforations H between the angles of the erimps 0r corrugations, for the insertion of the lock-pin R. rIhe fence-wires w are placed in the angles of the corrugations and held therein by means of the lock-pin R passing down through the perforations H to inclose the fence-wires w between it and the strip S, asshown. The perforationsareintend ed to be somewhat oblong in form, for the purpose of permitting the strip S to be' crimped (No model.)

or corrugated as little as possible, and thereby more firmly support the fence-wires.

I am aware that stays for this purpose have been used, consisting of a wire bent spirally and applied to the wires of a fence by placing said wires in the spiral bends thereof, and then passing a separate wire through the bends of the bent wire to lock the fence-wires in said bends, which construction I do not claim.

By providing the strip S with corrugations and perforations', as shown, it becomes applicable t0 the strands of a wire fence in which any number of wires at different distances apart are used, and it is intended to be used between the fence-posts to support and lock the strands in proper position, so that they may not be spread apart where the posts are a considerable distance apart, as is usually the ease in wire fences.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows, to wit:

A stay for a wire fence, consisting of a strip of metal crimped through its entire length and perforated through the said crimps, in combination with a rod which is passed down through all of the perforations in said strip, locking the wire in the angles thereof, substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM J. HU'ICHINS.

IVitnesses:

Taos. H. IIUrcnINs, LEVI M. GLUYEs. 

